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Shin Hanga prints

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	Design:	Hashiguchi Goyō (1880-1921)
	Title:	Woman applying makeup
	Size:	51.2 x 36.5 cm (double ōban)
	Posthumous printing from newly cut blocks
	Photography:	Jacques Commandeur

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Enlargement

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Special effects: beautiful silver mica background; gold metallic pigments on the mirror and on the woman’s ring; embossing (karazuri) for the chrysantemum motifs on her kimono.

Originally published privately in the dai-ōban size in 1918 by Goyō. This edition was published in the even larger double-ōban size by Yūyūdō in the 1970s/80s.

Original publishing date and artist’s signature in middle right area of the print:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
大	tai	big	The 7th year
正	shō	correct	of the
七	shichi	seven	Taishō era,
年	nen	year	i.e., 1918

Followed by Goyō seal:

in which the three kanji read:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
五	go	five	Picture
葉	yō	leaf	by
画	ga	picture	Goyō

Yūyūdō publisher seal in lower right margin of the print.

Red label with artist’s name and print titles on the protective outside cardboard folder (left) and on the grey presentation folder inside the cardboard folder (right) in which this double-ōban two-set of Goyo prints was packaged:

The kanji on the red labels read (from right to left):

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
橋	hashi	bridge
口	kuchi	mouth
五	go	five
葉	yō	leaf	Hashiguchi Goyō
耶	yazya	question mark
馬	ba	horse
渓	kei	valley
の	no	’s
雨	ame	rain	Rain at Yabakei
化	ke	turn oneself (into)
粧	shō	adorn (one’s person)
の	no	’s
女	onna	woman	Woman applying makeup

Edition number 492 in black stamp on the inside of the presentation folder.

The protective folder carries the label:

in which the kanji read:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
橋	hashi	bridge
口	kuchi	mouth
五	go	five
葉	yō	leaf	Hashiguchi Goyō
化	ke	turn oneself (into)
粧	shō	adorn (one’s person)
の	no	’s
女	onna	woman	Woman applying makeup

Names of printer and carver of this later edition in lower left margin:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
摺	suri	printing	Printer:
佐	sa	bridge
藤	tō	cram	Satō
律	ritsu	light
三	zō	man	Ritsuzō
彫	hori	carving	Carver:
前	mae	plant
田	ta	rice field	Maeda
謙	ken	chastity
太	ta	male
郎	rō	male	Kentarō

This two-prints Yūyūdō set comes with the following information folder, outside:

and inside:

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References

• Jansen, Marije (2016). Japan modern. Japanse prenten uit de collectie Elise Wessels. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum.

• Marks, Andreas (2015). Seven Masters: 20th Century Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Wells Collection. Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

• Narazaki, Muneshige, ed. (1990). Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in Western collections. The Robert O. Muller Collection. Tokyo: Kodansha International.

• Newland, Amy Reigle, and Shinji, Hamanaka (2000). The female image. Leiden: Hotei Publishing.

• Newland, Amy Reigle, ed. (2004). Printed to Perfection. Twentieth-century Japanese Prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection. Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, in association with Sackler Gallery/Smithsonian Institution.

• Stephens, Amy Reigle (1993). The New Wave: Twentieth-century Japanese Prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection. London: Bamboo Publishing.

• Uhlenbeck, Chris, Newland, Amy Reigle, and de Vries, Maureen. (2016). Waves of renewal. Modern Japanese Prints, 1900 to 1960. Selections from the Nihon no hanga collection, Amsterdam. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV.

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Provenance: Yahoo Japan Auction